Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Gels in 2017

Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Gels maintains high quality standards for its published papers. In 2017, a total of 49 papers were published in the journal. Thanks to the cooperation of our reviewers, the median time to first decision was 21 days and the median time to publication was 47 days. The editors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the following reviewers for their time and dedication in 2017:

Abdellatif, Abdelmohsan	Leporatti, Stefano
Argia, Katsuhiko	Liefeith, Klaus
Bandyopadhyay, Sulalit	Major, Ian
Bednarz, Szczepan	Mathew, Aji P.
Ben Messaoud, Ghazi	Medronho, Bruno
Bernards, Matthew	Merino, Sonia
Betancourt, Tania	Miravet, Juan F.
Bokias, Georgios	Montenegro, Lucia
Bong, Ki Wan	Moth-Poulsen, Kasper
Bouropoulos, Nikolaos	Moura, Maria J.
Cerroni, Barbara	Muench, Falk
Chandrasekaran, Swetha	Nair, Devatha
Chiessi, Ester	Ngai, To
Chronopoulou, Laura	Nonappa, Nonappa
Cui, Haitao	Oddo, Letizia
Custodio, Catarina	Ohsedo, Yutaka
Czajkowska, Aneta	Okesola, Babatunde
Delbecq, Frederic	Paduano, Luigi
Díaz Díaz, David	Palocci, Cleofe
Domenici, Fabio	Papadakis, Christine
Douglas, Jack F.	Paradossi, Gaio
Dräger, Gerald	Patterson, Jennifer
Dupin, Damien	Pereira, Luís
Eceiza, Arantxa	Pouponneau, Pierre
Erk, Kendra	Puiggali, Jordi
Esquivias Fedriani, Luis	Ratke, Lorenz
Franke, Daniela	Raucci, Maria Grazia
Fu, Qiuyun	Ribeiro, Clarisse
Garcia-Gonzalez, Carlos A.	Rovigatti, Lorenzo
Gentile, Piergiorgio	Rubio-Hernández, Francisco J.
Ghahremaninezhad, Ali	Russo, Laura
Ghugare, Shivkumar V.	Salipante, Paul
Gohy, Jean-Francois	Savo, Domenico Fabio
Gormley, Adam	Schiraldi, David A.
Gradzielki, Michael	Serban, Monica
Guerra, Gaetano	Sher, Praveen
Hellweg, Thomas	Slosarczyk, Agnieszka
Heras, Angeles	Smirnova, Irina
Huang, Weimin	Song, Changsik
Iatridi, Zacharoula	Steed, Jonathan
Iatrou, Hermis	Stokke, Bjørn T.
Ijima, Hiroyuki	Sun, Yuan
Ikeda, Masato	Tananaiko, Oksana
Ino, Kosuke	Taylor, Joan
Jain, Gaurav	Teramoto, Yoshikuni
John, Vijay T.	Thordarson, Pall
Kadlubowski, Slawomir	Toca-Herrera, José Luis
Kali, Gergely	Tomasini, Claudia
Kalyon, Dilhan M.	Torres, María D.
Kato, Tadashi	Tunesi, Marta
Kim, Jongseong	Urayama, Kenji
Krebs, Melissa	Volker, Körstgens
Kuang, Huihui	Wang, Hui-Liang
Kuckling, Dirk	Weiss, Richard G.
Kundu, Santanu	Winkler, Roland G.
Kyle, Stuart	Yamanaka, Masamichi
Lapitsky, Yakov	Yang, Yonggang
Larraneta Landa, Eneko	Yoon, Jinhwan
Lázár, István	Yu, Jiashing
Lee, Seungae	Yu, Xinjun
Lenfant, Gilles	Zaccone, Alessio